Improvement in stoves



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Stove.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC A. SHEPPARD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVES.

Specitication formingpart of Letters Patent No. 169,050, dated October 19, 1875; application led September 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAo A. SEEPPARD, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Improvement in the Fire-Places of Cooking-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to aiford facilities for clearing the fire-place of a cookingstove, separating the cinders from the ashes, and readily disposing of the latter, and this object I attain in the manner which I Will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of sufficient of a cooking-stove to illustrate my invention; and Fig. 2, a sectional plan on the line 1 2.

A is the top plate of the stove; B, the bottom plate; C, the front, having the usual openings for admitting air to support combustion; and D the lire-place, furnished with a tiltinggrate, E, beneath which there are two compartments, F and G, separated from each other by a sifting-plate, H, which is so hung as to admit of being tilted in the manner shown by dotted lines. The bottom of the compartment G is closed by a door, a, which is also so hung as to be easily tilted, the spindles of both sifter H and door a projecting through the side plate of the stove so as to be within reach, and easily operated by a suitable handle. Access can be had to the compartments F and G through suitable doorways furnished with doors b.v

The stove should be placed in such a position that the compartment G will be directly above an opening, d, in the floor, the said :opening communicating through a suitable\ effected by vibrating the sif'ter, or by raking' the cinders and ashes with a suitable instrument introduced through the doorway above the grate, after which the cinders may be removed prior to being used as fuel while the ashes remain in the compartment G until they become cool, when they may be discharged into the bin below by tilting the door a..

I do not desire to claim, broadly, the combination of an ash-sifter with the ash-pit of a cooking-stove; but

I claim as my inventionrlhe combination, in a cooking-stove, of the lire-place D, its grate E, the compartments F and G, the tilting sifter between the compartments, and the tilting-door a in the bottom i of the said compartment G, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofl I have signed my y name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC A. SHEPPARD. Witnesses:

HUBERT HowsoN, HARRY SMITH. 

